With astonishing frequency, the magazine did publish minor masterpieces—John Cheever's "The Swimmer," Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," Thomas Wolfe's "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn," Irwin Shaw's "Girls in their Summer Dresses," works by John Updike, J. D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, John O'Hara, others—which were, in their own way, generation-defining stories.
